Drew Card - Co-Founder / Creative Director

Drew began 3D graphics programming as a student at the University of South Carolina, where he graduated in 1998 with a Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering. While attending graduate school in Computer Engineering, Drew was lured out of academia by a close friend to join the search engine start up 2wrongs.com. Drew helped 2wrongs get up and running as their lead programmer before moving on to pursue a career in 3D graphics programming.

During the summer of 2000 Drew began working at ATI Research in Marlborough, Massachusetts and eventually found himself in the 3D Application Research Group working on tools and demos to showcase the second and third generation RADEON video cards. At ATI Drew was the original lead programmer and designer on RenderMonkey, ATI's shader development software, where he lead the team through the first year of development.

In late 2002 Drew moved west to pursue his dream of programming in the video game industry. He joined Westwood Studios as a graphics programmer on Earth and Beyond, but the stay at Westwood was short lived. Just three months after arriving, the doors were closed on Westwood's Las Vegas studio.

After his short time at Westwood, Drew was quickly snatched up by the talented team at Oddworld Inhabitants and began working on the critically acclaimed Xbox title, Stranger's Wrath. At Oddworld he developed the in-game effects system working closely with the lead real time artist.

In 2005 Drew and his wife Rachel returned to South Carolina to settle down and be closer to family. He reunited with his college mentors and became a part of their team at IDV (the creators of SpeedTree) working on a scientific visualization application called Eye-Sys.

In January of 2006, after months of lobbying his wife and a brief stint playing high stakes online poker, Drew took the plunge and started Void Star Creations. His goal with Void Star is to grow a thriving development studio where a small highly skilled team creates innovative games that are first and foremost fun to play.

Ryan Ellis - Co-Founder / Art Director

Born and raised in northern Washington, Ryan headed to British Columbia, Canada in the late 90's where he attended the Vancouver Film School.

After graduating from the Film School in 2000, Ryan was began his career as a technical director for Oddworld Inhabitants working on pre rendered cinematics for the Xbox title, Munch's Oddysee. After shipping Munch's Oddysee Ryan made the switch to Oddworld's real time department where he was quickly promoted to Lead Real Time Artist on the critically acclaimed, Oddworld Stranger's Wrath.

After five years at Oddworld Inhabitants, Ryan accepted a position as Lead Technical Artist with Zipper Interactive. This position brought him back to Washington in 2005 where he worked on an undisclosed next gen title.

Early in 2006 Ryan was reunited with Drew Card and Void Star Creations, and he began his role as Art Director for their flagship title Poker Smash.

David Sease - Lead Sound Designer

David grew up in Lexington South Carolina and has been writing, recording and performing music for the last 15 years. He is a phenom on the lead guitar and has an amazing singing voice. David's blend of electric punk rock sounds, acoustic instrumentals, and his signature vocals provide the audio backbone for Void Star's sound design.

As a founding member of the melodic punk rock band Stretch Arm Strong, David has seen the world touring and performing. Since it's inception in 1992 Stretch Arm Strong has released 5 full length albums as well as various singles and compilations. They have performed all over Europe, Asia and across North America. Their video for their latest single, "The Sound of Names Dropping", can be seen on the music video network Fuse T.V.

David's talent and his creative sound design add a unique touch to every Void Star title.